Example sentences of "not [adv] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( It is not exactly the right answer because of the rough averaging procedure we used to arrive at the direct effects . ) |
| 2 | Medication is not always the right resource in times of distress , but there are certain situations that are so terrible that you will need something to help you through the first few months . |
| 3 | Yeah that 's not really the right colour for her erm what else can I think of ? |
| 4 | slump , we 're , then we 're back into I would n't say a boom , er that 's not really the right description , but we 're certainly back out of the er woods as far as erm er shares go in the U K. |
| 5 | ‘ Hearing ’ is not really the right word for this faculty , because we immediately relate it to our own highly specific sense of hearing . |
| 6 | Sniffing is not really the right word because the vapours are inhaled through the nose and mouth ; some users call it ‘ huffing ’ . |
| 7 | Admittedly I 'm not really the right shape for it all . |
| 8 | ( perhaps one should say that as such a psychological statement it would express my awareness that I have the belief rather than my belief that I have the belief , since belief is not quite the right word in this context , but let us leave such qualifications to be understood . ) |
| 9 | Perhaps that 's not quite the right word … ’ |
| 10 | Erm , what would not quite the right shape what would that graph be ? |
| 11 | The most publicised case was when a hotel was painted pink as requested , but the California-based Disney dream builders decided it was not quite the right shade of pink . |
| 12 | They 're very happy with manufacturing , but the selling of the product and the trading is not quite the right thing to do . |
| 13 | Her father was a rich and respected solicitor — not quite the right breeding , socially speaking , in County Westcommon , but Lalage 's charm and silly looks guaranteed her welcome in many houses to which her mother had never been invited : she and Nicandra had been " best friends " at their English school . |
| 14 | ‘ Well met , Michael Riven , ’ he said quietly , and the words were distorted in his mouth , as though it were not yet the right shape for them . |
| 15 | But , as Dent points out , recycling is n't always the right answer to disposing of waste plastics . |
| 16 | Saturday morning cartoons are n't really the right vehicle for what Deee-Lite want to say . |
| 17 | But still Ms Stone has the world at her feet and her reputation remains , if untarnished is n't quite the right word , intact — the uncrowned ‘ Hottest thing in Hollywood ’ . |
| 18 | No comment is worth making on this bizarre suggestion , except perhaps pointing out to Professor Drife that a beard is n't precisely the right analogy . |